hova
Hopi
Noun
hova
- a queer person, such as a homosexual or a two-spirit
References
- David Leedom Shaul, A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon →ISBN, 1985) (which glosses hova as "homosexual")
- Robert Christopher Basaldú, Hopi Hova: Anthropological Assumptions of Gendered Otherness in Native American Societies (1999)
- Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective →ISBN, 2000)
Hungarian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhovɒ]
- Hyphenation: ho‧va
- Rhymes: -vɒ
Adverb
hova (not comparable)
- (interrogative) where (in which direction, which way, to which place)
- Hova mész? ― Where are you going?
- Nem tudom, hova tettem a kulcsomat. ― I don't know where I put my keys.
Derived terms
See also
1 Semhogy and semmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as in inkább meghal, semhogy… ― he'll rather die than…).
2 Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations.
3 Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig).
Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”).
Further reading
- hova in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hova f
- definite singular of hov
Noun
hova n
- definite plural of hov